A MILD REBUKE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17354, 20 May 1924, Page 7

A MILD REBUKE.

MAGISTRATE AND SOLICITOR. PUNCTUALITY NECESSARY. When a maintenance case was called at th© Magistrate’s Court this morning at ten minutes past ten there was no appearance of Air Batchelor, solicitor for the plaintiff. The Magistrate (Mr Mosley) ordered the case to stand down, remariring that he would have something to say to Air Batchelor when he arrived. Counsel turned up ten minutes later, and in offering an apology, said be waa under the impression that the Court did not start till 10.30. 4 ‘ Well, just make a note of it that tho Court sits at ten o’clock.” said the Alagistrate good-humouredly. “ It wouldn’t matter so much if you were wasting your own time, but you are wasting the time of the police.” A little later in the morning Air Twyneham tendered an apology for being seven minutes late in arriving at th© CourtThe Magistrate : Fortunately for you Air Twyneham you were not wanted. Continuing. Air Twyneham said that latterly things had become so slack at the Court on Tuesdays that solicitors were in th© habit of leaving their offices about ten o’clock and arriving iri ample time for the Court. Air Alosley expressed surprise at these remarks. He said he well remembered that when he was practising in Christchurch he arrived at the Court at two minutes past ten to find that his case had been struck out by the late Air Bishop. 4< I learnt my les-* son.” he said, smilingly. Alagistrate and counsel agreed that the training they had received at the hands of the late Air Bishop had been good for them-